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Internal ID UUID644024678beea631899709
Scientific name Albuca abyssinica
Authority Jacq.
First published in Icon. Pl. Rar. 1(3): t. 64 (1783)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Asphodelus abyssinicus hort. ex Schult.f. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 7: 500 (1829)
Asphodelus africanus Lam. Encycl. 1: 300 (1783)
Ornithogalum quartinianum (A.Rich.) Lanza Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Palermo 9: 34 (1910)
Ornithogalum melleri Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 280. 1873
Ornithogalum monteiroi Baker Fl. Cap. 6: 508 (1897)
Pallastema abyssinica (Jacq.) Salisb. Gen. Pl. : 36 (1866)
Scilla quartiniana A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 329 (1850)
Scilla petitiana A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 328 (1850)
Urginea petitiana (A.Rich.) Solms Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. [Schweinfurth] 294.
Urginea quartiniana (A.Rich.) Solms Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. [Schweinfurth] 284.
Urginea acinacifolia Schinz Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg xxxi. (1890) 220.
Urginea beccarii Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 223. 1872 [1873 publ. 1872]
Ornithogalum fleckii (Schinz) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt Edinburgh J. Bot. 60: 548 (2003 publ. 2004)
Albuca allenae Baker Gard. Chron. , ser. 3, 3: 10 (1888)
Albuca angolensis Welw. Apont. : 591 (1859)
Albuca asclepiadea Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 426 (1932)
Albuca bainesii Baker J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 29 (1873)
Albuca beguinotii Cufod. Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp. : 318 (1939)
Albuca blepharophylla Cufod. Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot., Angiosp.-Gymnosp. : 320 (1939)
Albuca capitata Gilli Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 69: 52 (1966)
Albuca chaetopoda Chiov. Pl. Nov. Aethiop. : 3 (1928)
Albuca elastica Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton : 239 (1796)
Albuca elwesii Regel Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada , prepr. 6: 538 (1879)
Albuca erlangeriana Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 92 (1902)
Albuca fibrillosa De Wild. Rev. Zool. Bot. Africaines 9(Suppl. Bot.): 21 (1921)
Albuca fischeri Engl. Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1891: 165 (1892)
Albuca fleckii Schinz Bull. Herb. Boissier 4(3): 40 (1896)
Albuca hysterantha Chiov. Ann. Bot. (Rome) 9: 145 (1911)
Albuca lugardii Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 533 (1898)
Albuca melleri (Baker) Baker Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 532 (1898)
Albuca nemorosa Chiov. Ann. Bot. (Rome) 9: 146 (1911)
Albuca praecox Engl. & K.Krause Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 143 (1910)
Albuca purpurascens Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 473 (1892)
Albuca tayloriana Rendle J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 30: 424 (1895)
Albuca wakefieldii Baker Bot. Mag. 105: t. 6429 (1879)
Albuca abyssinica Welw. ex Baker Gard. Chron. 1872: 392 (1872)
Albuca parviflora Perkins Wiss. Erg. Deut. Zentr.-Afr. Exped., Bot. 2: 61 (1910)

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Language Common/alternative name
Chinese 埃塞俄比亚阿布百合
Chinese 衣索比亞阿布百合

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Nigeria
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre

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World Flora Online wfo-0000755077
Tropicos 18405669
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:527306-1
The Plant List kew-294469
Open Tree Of Life 219337
NCBI Taxonomy 480426
IPNI 527306-1
iNaturalist 579382
GBIF 2772379
EOL 1084060
Wikipedia Albuca_abyssinica

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Assessing Alien Plant Invasions in Urban Environments: A Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation Nelufule T, Shivambu TC, Shivambu N, Moshobane MC, Seoraj-Pillai N, Nangammbi T Plants (Basel) 18-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10975853
doi:10.3390/plants13060872
PMID:38592858
Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Traditional Medicinal Uses, Phytoconstituents, Bioactivities, and Toxicities of Erythrina abyssinica Lam. ex DC. (Fabaceae): A Systematic Review Obakiro SB, Kiprop A, Kigondu E, K'Owino I, Odero MP, Manyim S, Omara T, Namukobe J, Owor RO, Gavamukulya Y, Bunalema L Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 03-Mar-2021
PMCID:PMC7952165
doi:10.1155/2021/5513484
PMID:33763144
Medicinal plants species used by herbalists in the treatment of snakebite envenomation in Uganda Okot DF, Anywar G, Namukobe J, Byamukama R Trop Med Health 05-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7273665
doi:10.1186/s41182-020-00229-4
PMID:32518500
Anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of solvent fractions of the leaves of Moringa stenopetala Bak. (Moringaceae) in mice models Tamrat Y, Nedi T, Assefa S, Teklehaymanot T, Shibeshi W BMC Complement Altern Med 29-Sep-2017
PMCID:PMC5622485
doi:10.1186/s12906-017-1982-y
PMID:28962563
Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants: Preparation and application methods by traditional healers in selected districts of southern Ethiopia Eshetu GR, Dejene TA, Telila LB, Bekele DF Vet World 29-May-2015
PMCID:PMC4774733
doi:10.14202/vetworld.2015.674-684
PMID:27047155
Molecular phylogenetics of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA regions, including a new taxonomic arrangement Martínez-Azorín M, Crespo MB, Juan A, Fay MF Ann Bot 01-Jan-2010
PMCID:PMC3002468
doi:10.1093/aob/mcq207
PMID:21163815

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